Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 641 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I'm So Dizzy My Head Is Spinnin'
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2009.05.06
2007; Camp Richard By-The-Sea: Lost in thought, Sun plays idly with Jin's wedding band, as is her wont. When Locke joins her, she wonders if it's true -- if "they're all dead." Locke tells her he doesn't think they've gone through all this for nothing. He asks Richard if he still has the old compass he gave him. Richard says it's a little rusty but it can still find north. Could it ever really find north on that island, what with all the magic electro-magnetism? Locke tells Sun to sit tight and invites Ben on the expedition he'll be taking with Richard. Ben snits about Locke not trusting him with his former people. "Afraid I'll stage a coup?" Locke says he's no longer afraid of anything Ben can do, which is just awesome. Ben fakes enthusiasm for Locke's errand which is even more awesome, and then Locke assures Sun that if there's any way for him to find their people (that he means the Oceanic 815 people is implicit in the context) he'll do it. They leave Sun alone to worry (less awesome), and we jump to...
1977; Camp Richard In-The-Verge: Other-Goon is rough with Kate as he escorts her into Ellie's tent, so Jack shouts for him to take it easy on her. Other-Goon only takes orders from Ellie, Richard, Charles, and all the other Others, so he doesn't like being bossed around and kicks Jack in the freaking head! He leaves him and Kate with an order not to talk, so, of course, they talk. Jack thinks if they can do what Faraday said (blow up the energy source at the Swan site before the incident), their plane will never crash, Oceanic 815 will land in L.A. and everyone they've lost since they crashed on Craphole will still be alive. Kate wonders, "What about us," and I want to go inside my TV set and ask her if she means her-and-Jack us or Lost-aways us or the Returnees us or well, just I need a solid definition, okay? It doesn't matter. I'm not getting one here and now. "We just go on living our life, because we've never met?" Jack's all for that, because they can kiss all the misery they've been through goodbye. Kate protests. "It was not all misery." Does it feel like they swapped roles here? Whatever. Jack's so over her this minute. Maybe the kick to the head did it. Harking back to her comment about it not being all misery, Jack says, "Enough of it was."